- Don't stick your elbow
- Out so far
- It may go home
- In another car.
- BURMA
- SHAVE
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- TRAINS DON'T WANDER
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- ALL OVER THE MAP
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- 'CAUSE NOBODY SITS
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- IN THE ENGINEER'S LAP
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- Burma Shave
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- SHE KISSED THE HAIRBRUSH
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- BY MISTAKE
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- SHE THOUGHT IT WAS
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- HER HUSBAND JAKE
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- Burma Shave
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- For those who never saw any of the Burma Shave signs,
here is a quick lesson in our history of the 1940's and '50's. Before there
were interstates, when everyone drove the old 2 lane roads, Burma Shave
signs would be posted all over the countryside in farmers' fields.
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- They were small red signs with white letters.
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- Five signs, about 100 feet apart, each containing 1 line
of a 4 line couplet...... and the obligatory 5th sign advertising Burma
Shave, a popular shaving cream.
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- Here are more of the actual signs:
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- DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
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- TO GAIN A MINUTE
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- YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
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- YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT
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- Burma Shave
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- DROVE TOO LONG
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- DRIVER SNOOZING
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- WHAT HAPPENED
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- NEXT IS NOT AMUSING
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- Burma Shave
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- BROTHER SPEEDER
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- LET'S REHEARSE
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- ALL TOGETHER
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- GOOD MORNING, NURSE
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- Burma Shave
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- CAUTIOUS RIDER
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- TO HER RECKLESS DEAR
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- LET'S HAVE LESS BULL
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- AND MORE STEER
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- Burma Shave
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- SPEED WAS HIGH
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- WEATHER WAS NOT
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- TIRES WERE THIN
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- X MARKS THE SPOT
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- Burma Shave
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- THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
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- OF PAUL FOR BEER
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- LED TO A WARMER
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- HEMISPHERE
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- Burma Shave
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- AROUND THE CURVE
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- LICKETY-SPLIT
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- BEAUTIFUL CAR
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- WASN'T IT?
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- Burma Shave
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- NO MATTER THE PRICE
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- NO MATTER HOW NEW
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- THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE
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- IN THE CAR IS YOU
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- Burma Shave
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- A GUY WHO DRIVES
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- A CAR WIDE OPEN
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- IS NOT THINKIN'
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- HE'S JUST HOPIN'
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- Burma Shave
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- AT INTERSECTIONS
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- LOOK EACH WAY
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- A HARP SOUNDS NICE
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- BUT IT'S HARD TO PLAY
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- Burma Shave
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- BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL
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- EYES ON THE ROAD
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- THAT'S THE SKILLFUL
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- DRIVER'S CODE
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- Burma Shave
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- THE ONE WHO DRIVES
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- WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING
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- DEPENDS ON YOU
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- TO DO HIS THINKING
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- Burma Shave
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- CAR IN DITCH
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- DRIVER IN TREE
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- THE MOON WAS FULL
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- AND SO WAS HE.
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- Burma Shave
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- PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
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- TAKE IT SLOW
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- LET OUR LITTLE
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- SHAVERS GROW
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- Burma Shave
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